gettext: Insecure temporary file handling [LWN.net]

Package(s):

gettext

CVE #(s):

CAN-2004-0966

Created:

October 11, 2004

Updated:

March 1, 2006

Description:

gettext insecurely creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with predictable names. A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary files directory, pointing to a valid file somewhere on the filesystem. When gettext is called, this would result in file access with the rights of the user running the utility, which could be the root user.

Alerts:

Mandriva	MDKSA-2006:051	2006-02-28
Fedora-Legacy	FLSA:136323	2006-01-09
Gentoo	200410-10:02	2004-10-10
OpenPKG	OpenPKG-SA-2004.055	2004-12-23
Ubuntu	USN-5-1	2004-10-27
Gentoo	200410-10	2004-10-10

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gettext: Insecure temporary file handling

Posted Apr 28, 2005 7:46 UTC (Thu) by mjc@redhat.com (guest, #2303) [Link]

CAN-2004-0966